> As it so happens, I have this one really nasty> query that just takes way too long...

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> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:02, Dan Tow wrote:> > Hi, this is Dan Tow, the author of SQL Tuning, wading in=20> with a few remarks:> >=20> > One of the list members (no, not my editor) let me know of=20> this thread, so I

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> > thought I might clear up a few things with a response.=20> There's been some=20> > speculation regarding the origin of the method I describe=20> in the book. I> came=20> > up with it on my own about ten years ago, without a=20> literature search, but=20> > later learned that there was some fairly similar stuff out=20> there in the=20> > academic literature that long predated my entry into the=20> field, so I make no

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> > particular claim to the method being hugely original.=20> However, I believe> that=20> > the book is at least original as a *non-academic*,=20> readable, detailed=20> > description of the approach.> ...

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